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Lecture on The Handmaid’s Tale: The Graphic Novel; Part of the Banned Books Project (2025)

Discussion on Feminists Reclaim Mentorship, Tahneer Oksman and Nancy K. Miller; Jewish Women’s Archive (2024)

Judith Rosenbaum, CEO of the Jewish Women's Archive, talks with Professors Tahneer Oksman and Nancy K. Miller about their anthology Feminists Reclaim Mentorship and the obstacles and urgency to forming meaningful mentoring relationships. March 21, 2024.

Lecture, “Visual // Grief”; The Oxford Research Centre for the Humanities (2022)

In both prose and graphic non-fictional narratives of grief and mourning, loss and its aftermath are often signposted in and through potently visual moments and scenes built from image-memories. Common ones across the sub-genre might include the sight of a dying, or dead, body; the hospital, or hospice room; the burial scene; and/or the first glimpse of a shared home without a beloved other. In some cases, the glaring absence of such pictures—a missed sight or missed sights—is what haunts a griever, or community of grievers, and shapes the story. In this talk, Tahneer Oksman will use such moments to attend to what graphic narratives focused on grieving experiences can teach us, especially about the connective potential of individual and communal experiences of loss.

Lecture, “Family, History, Memory: Notes on Some Jewish Graphic Novels”; The National Library of Israel (2022)

Lecture, Tahneer Oksman talks: Serial Selves, Jewish women creators, & Art of Loss (2020)

Tahneer Oksman Talks: Jewish Women Comics Creators as well as ethics, empathy, art history as way to understand creators can "use images of self to think about the way we see ourselves, the way we name ourselves in relation to the way other people see us and name us." Discussion includes work by Julie Doucet, Gabrielle Bell, Aline Kominsky-Crumb.

Discussion, Jewish Female Self Identity, Tahneer Oksman and Liana Finch; the Center for Jewish History (2017)

Author Tahneer Oksman (How Come Boys Get to Keep Their Noses?) and New Yorker contributor Liana Finck discuss how female Jewish cartoonists address the ambiguous ways the Jewish community portrays women. A program of the American Jewish Historical Society.

Lecture, “Drawing their lives: Jewish women and comics”; Jewish Women’s Archive Global Day of Learning (2017)

Session on Jewish Women and Comics for the Jewish Women's Archive's Global Day of Learning, in celebration of the launch of the Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Learning. June 27, 2021. Featuring Tahneer Oksman in conversation with Betsy More. https://jwa.org/encyclopedia

Lecture on women and Jewish American identity in Comics; Kelly Writers House at the University of Pennsylvania (2016)